THE NE.W YORKER -Q This Our Exile by David Burnham A bri II Îant novel of American fam- ily life, set in a fashionable..Chicago suburb, New York, and Princeton.. $2 50 Scribne,.& EW Z ST T() ()I.I> I>I.E.SIJ I:S Early Spring at Sedgefield brings back the urge to hear again the creak of saddle leather and the hollow sound of pounding hoofs over .trail and field -to stand up and smack a golf ball with a Full body swing that thrills. Overnight from New York. Reservations desired. , MAIN LINE SOUTHERN R. R. U. S. ROUTE 70 N. C. ROUTE 10 SIEID4G:IEIFIIIEllID II SEÐ(;U1ELD U. {j1;.[[NSBûRû. NûRTH CAIWLlNA" JOHN C. WALLER. MGR. THE BRADFORD of BOSTON A MODERN MID-TOWN HOTEL 15 floors devoted to I uxurious hos- pitality. Every room with bath. Single, $3-$4. Double, $4.50-$7. l. C. PRIOR MANAGEMENT T REM 0 NT ST.-near Boston Common :r. I' " '. ,,(. II,.. " JI Wi'" . ::::t.ì. :';:4i i:: : ;';' -, , , j:.... '.d for instance, the important element of surprise and become ordinary. I t is clear too soon that the paper streamers in the restaurant scene will become entangled with the spaghetti, that the bald heads will be mistaken for the ice cream in the party interlude, that the rain barrel will tip over when it does, that the peculiar problems of the street-cleaner will be emphasized exactly as they are; and the tumb- ling and tussling on the riverbank are somewhat prolonged. To count- eract these familiar or over-deliber- ated details there are the others, like that which gives you a shock of laugh- ter when the poor man is doused with water, so logically, so inevitably, on his first meeting with the flower girl. ^ S for the sound effects and the at- tack on the talkies, the picture is synchronized with a musical score, de- vised by Mr. Chaplin himself, very reminiscent in quality and most suc- cessful in its use, by way of a motif for the girl, of the "Violetera." Only once, in the whistle affair, does Charlie himself rely on sound for his own pan- tomime. The opening scene, at the unveiling of the statue, is generally ac- cepted as the attack on the talkies. The people there open their mouths, they utter sounds, but no words come forth, only flubdubbery of noise, with the In- tonations of speech common at gran- diloquent occasions. This may be, in- deed, a hit on what we get in the talk- ing pictures, on the mechanical sounds and on the futility of the ridiculous dialogue often heard there. It may also, incidentally, be a sly comment on the inanity of the run of speeches as they are actually often rendered, and that to me is the more interesting interpreta- tion. I am inclined also to suspect that Mr. Chaplin himself had that in mind, for concerned as he is with movies, in- volved as his life is with them, the real success of all his humor and all his skill lies in the fact that he goes beyond his medium so much to the world we live in. " ':::. T HERE are a few more of the usual slapdash films. I suppose the most to be noticed is Nancy Car- roll's "Stolen Heaven." Occasionally during this film I was roused to expect something interesting. The story had possibilities, it seemed to me, in my optimism. A slight affair, something about a holdup man and a little street- walker, both mere children who have been unfortunate, and the arrangement they make to enjoy his ill-gotten gains NEW YORK · VI GO THERE'S STilL AN EXCELLENT CABIN FOR YOU for the MARCH 20 sailing of the FRAN C E '" 1 -1 FOR barely more (perhaps even less) than it costs to live ashore, you'll set out on the calm Southern Route as the guest of the ablest hosts afloat-on their U ship that everyone loves," the famous France. To Vigo, Casablanca, then Gi- braltar-nextAlgiers with exciting motor trips into the Sahara-then Tunis, Naples, the gleaming Riviera-then homeward bound, via Marseilles, Paris and Havre. Your French Line agent has an excellent cabin for you. Call him today. French Line, 19 State Street, N ew York. ':i l; ' .' ' . ....:.., ""'...... ,,:' u",-'-' :y!t. ,../:.:/,;::::;: ié t j; ..""":l" (/ r ) f , :,ß ,'" ::- . - . :: ," ,1 , .. ..,. ..,.. ;:. : ",:" < '\ i K'. :,':: !.: :. ::=-:j :::. ': :; t , 1lne 61 n )> (J) )> OJ .- )> z n )> . G) OJ AJ )> r-- ---i )> AJ . )> r-- G) m AJ (j) . -I C Z (j) . z )> \J r-- m (f) . o z )> n o . n )> Z Z m (f) . )> AJ (f) m r- r- m C/) . --0 )> AJ C/) . OJ )> AJ OJ )> AJ -<